Re: ot gardening [snicker] it's rooted

I adore kelp - it's good for everything! Diluted on house plants and containers, makes a great fertilizer for everything in the yard, even as a foliar feed for my roses and peppers mixed w/ a little Neem to keep the fungal diseases at bay. I couldn't do w/out it!!
Pam
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From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:21:37 -0500
>probably wouldn't hurt. could help. kelp is gentle stuff and generally good
>for maintaining the status quo--and that's what you want here. keep the
>dilution up [50-100:1] come spring you'll want to burn the barn in a
>potting mix laced with blood, bone, and cotton seed--and horse manure [if
>you can get it].
>
>
>At 05:05 PM 12/14/02 -0600, you wrote:
>>Jim - do you think of dab of liquid kelp in the water might help nutrient
>>wise? Or would that be too much??
>>
>>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>>From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
>>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:45:24 -0500
>>
>> >this is exciting, donna. this is what i would do if i lived where you do.
>> >1. i would keep the rooted cutting in water, but 2. i would make sure the
>> >water was sweet [add charcoal nuggets, replenish with bottled "spring"
>> >water]. 3. i would try to keep the level of light and temperature the same
>> >[constant] as the rooting level. 4. i would keep my fingers crossed until
>> >spring.
>> >
>> >
>> >At 03:34 PM 12/14/02 -0600, you wrote:
>> >>Sorry for the cross posts...
>> >>
>> >>Some of you may recall in the spring I was trying to id a tree, Prunus
>> >>serrulata 'Shirofugen.' (yeah, I know about a million messages ago)
>> >>
>> >>As I was unearthing a spare bedroom that was filled with X-Mas packages,
>> >>I found the branch, and still had water in the bottle that contained it.
>> >>( how did that happen!)
>> >>
>> >>It appears to have many small roots on it now. Since I live in zone 5,
>> >>the weather is already winter, and the ground is frozen. Although nature
>> >>has already taken care of this soon to be tree, and it obviously wants
>> >>to live, what should I do to help it along? Leave it and add nutrients
>> >>to the water? Try potting it up and move it to a better light location?
>> >>Bury it back in the corner where it was? Duh?
>> >>
>> >>Donna
>> >>IL, Zone 5..
>> >
>> >jsinger@igc.org
>> >
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>>Kemp TX/zone 8A
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